好赌波夜总会主音吉他手阿发（许冠文 饰）荷包羞涩，赌马去财，房租拖欠，还被夜总会赶了出来。在无处可睡的情形下，他和好友阿财（黎小田 饰）借宿女友家，偶然间却目睹了机械手臂的黑帮头目油炸螃蟹屠杀对手沙皮狗的场面。 阿发凭借小聪明暂时躲过油炸螃蟹的毒手，但却无法逃脱被追杀的厄运。万般无奈之下，他男扮女装加入阿财负责的欢乐女子乐队，并随团远赴泰国演出。途中他邂逅了乐队主唱叮叮（钟楚红 饰）但由于油炸螃蟹派出的杀手存在，这段旅程不光充满浪漫，还满是惊险……
自然主义电影大师兹沃金·帕夫诺维奇的代表作。 这部影片毫不留情地展示了生活的阴暗角落，城市阶层的藏污纳垢的场所。细节描写丰富而又很有表现力。主演细致入微地表现一个人在精神堕落、个性解体的过程。有评论者指责作者渲染阴暗面，给生活抹黑，甚至被称为黑片。也有人认为影片表达了作者对这种现象不安的态度，但对消除缺点是有信心的，这使影片能起到动员的作用。
故事发生在加利西亚海岸的一个村庄，这里的时间似乎停滞了。当自然和动物自由活动时，每个人都处于反射性的瘫痪状态。然而，我们仍然可以听到人们的声音，就好像他们在另一个平行的维度。这种感觉就像置身于一个充满幽灵的地狱。三个女人出现了，她们似乎能够在这两个维度之间移动。这些女性正在寻找卢比奥，此人是一名经验丰富的潜水者，但他最近失踪了。
Chekov's Uncle Vanya, transposed to turn-of-the-century North Wales, where the peace and tranquility of a country house is disturbed by the arrival of the estate's tyrannical owner and his American wife.
When Cheryl and her roommate quarrel, Cheryl moves into her aunt's skid-row hotel in downtown L.A. rather than return home to Ohio. The lodgers are odd, Aunt Martha is a moralizer obsessed with funerals, murder is afoot, and the inexperienced and trusting Cheryl may be the next victim. She wants to be treated like a woman, and she's drawn to George, a handsome photographer who longs for human contact but sleeps with a water-inflated doll and spies on Cheryl as she bathes. Jeff, a neighborhood clerk, may be Cheryl's only ally in what she doesn't realize is a perilous residence haunted by family secrets. And, what happened to Alice, a model who used to have Cheryl's room?
